RESULTS Weekly Update April 14, 2026
Quote of the Week
“Addressing poverty requires more than isolated solutions. It requires examining the full set of policies that influence economic stability, both at home and abroad.”
– RESULTS Expert on Poverty Tiffany Tagbo, in an April 10 op-ed in the Oklahoma Voice
(Is this newsletter too long; didn’t read (TL;DR) the whole thing? Scroll to the bottom for the most important points or the “TL;DR”)
Ask the Senate to stand against poverty in budget appropriations
The President’s Budget Request for fiscal year 2027 (FY27) recommends devastatingly harmful funding levels across our issues. But we know that Congress really has the power of the purse. You weighed in with the House. Now time is running short for us to weigh in with the Senate. We can’t let this window of opportunity pass us by.
As Congress returns to Washington this week, please submit your global health, global education, and U.S. housing appropriations requests into your Senate offices. The deadlines are fast approaching. April 20 is the deadline for housing and April 30 is the deadline for global health and education. Your congressional offices’ internal deadlines will likely be sooner than that. The FY27 appropriations memos and “cheat sheets” on our website will help you fill out office appropriations forms. You can also get in-person coaching at this Friday’s Appropriations Forms Office Hour with RESULTS staffer Katie Fleischer.
Next, please ask your Senators to sign onto circulating “Dear Colleague” letters. These letters are vital in building support for the funding levels needed to make a difference. A bipartisan letter supporting tuberculosis funding and a letter supporting Housing Choice Vouchers (closing April 16!) are open for signatures. Find the text of the letters and details on how Senators can sign on our website. We expect more letters across our issues to start circulating very soon, so keep our webpage handy.
If you’re still finishing Senate lobby meetings from our recent lobby push, be sure to repeat these requests in those meetings. And please report how your meeting(s) went!
Use Tax Day to kick off your Amplify Every Voice media!
Our first tranche of lobby meetings for the year is wrapping up successfully. Now, through July, we are turning to a media focus. We want to use local letters to the editor and op-eds amplify the work you’ve already done with Congress. We want to keep our issues in the news. And we want to create momentum for the RESULTS National Conference this summer. So we ask you to join the Amplify Every Voice Media Campaign. Here is the challenge: every RESULTS volunteer submits at least ONE media piece between now and July and every RESULTS group to make at least ONE request to a community ally or partnership group (Action Network, potential new advocates, local partners, etc.) to write and submit a media piece.
To kick things off, Tax Day is tomorrow. As highlighted on this past weekend’s National Webinar, the Child Tax Credit is a perfect topic to talk about using Tax Day as a hook. As prices continue to rise, reminding readers that tax policy can be used to benefit working families is particularly relevant right now. Or you could read our updated Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) lobby leave behind and write about U.S. nutrition as it relates to children in your community. Want to write about global health in the context of war? Our new appropriations ask for International Humanitarian Assistance would be a germane topic. You can find letter to the editor templates on our website.
Will you be part of the Amplify Every Voice media campaign? Will you invite others to join? Let’s make our issues headline news!
Nominate candidate for Grassroots Board Member seat election
If you didn’t hear the excellent overview and pitch from Aaron Carrillo and Ernest Loevinsohn on the April National Webinar, two Grassroots Board Member seats on the RESULTS Board of Directors will be filled via an election later this spring. Would you like to be considered? Or do you know a fellow advocate who would be a wonderful leader in this role? Find all the details about the nomination process and the election on our blog.
News of note
Attend “Beyond Charity: A Human Rights Approach to Ending Poverty.” Don’t miss a discussion about how our domestic and global campaigns are essential mechanisms to protect human dignity and shift power back to the people. This 90-minute webinar is the next offering from the Anti-Oppression Learning Community. Come on along this Friday, April 17 at 12 p.m. ET. Register today.
Register for the RESULTS National Conference by the June 12 deadline. Have you ever envisioned yourself walking down the halls of Congress? Walking in the doors of the offices of your senators and representative? Sitting down to discuss why the end of poverty is so personal to you? And highlighting the solutions you know we have available to us via better policy? You can do that this summer! It’s all part of the events of the 2026 National Conference that will be held July 12-14 in Washington, DC. Registration, hotel bookings, and applications for financial assistance are all due June 12. Register and apply for financial assistance today.
TL;DR (too long; didn’t read): Submit Senate appropriations forms and ask for Senate “Dear Colleague” letter signatures. Participate in the Amplify Every Voice media campaign. Consider the RESULTS Grassroots Board Member nominations. Join the next Anti-Oppression Learning Community webinar. And register for the National Conference in July.
Quick Links: Action Centhttps://Amplify Every Voiceer, Events Calendar, National Webinar recordings